Biodiversity
Action
Plan
Local Wildlife Sites are identified as the most important areas for biodiversity outside statutory designated sites. They are selected and designated for their locally important, distinctive, and threatened habitats and species. This is in order to protect them from inappropriate development and promote the conservation of their biodiversity.
Local Wildlife Sites are not given special legal protection, but designation as a Local Wildlife site is a material consideration in any planning application for development or change of use, and their conservation management is encouraged if not enforced.
1 Western Moors, SE150020
2 Whitley Edge, SE189049
3 Broadstone Reservoir, SE193063
4 Ingbirchworth Reservoir, SE214060
5 Royd Moor Reservoir, SE222048
6 Scout Dyke Reservoir, SE 233048
7 Small Shaw & High Bank, SE 05043
8 Hartcliff Hill, SE221018
9 Brock Holes, SE228013
10 Hollin and Spring Woods, SE228013
11 Gunthwaite Dam/Clough Wood, SE245062
12 Margery Wood, SE275057
13 North Wood, SE274048
14 Royd, Vicar, Lindley & Coates Great Woods, SE278038
15 Black Moor Common, SE275007
16 Silkstone Fall Wood, SE 93059
17 Daking Brook, SE224064 SE371091
18 Mag Wood Meadow, SE299013
19 deleted (Vicar Wood Meadow)
20 Hugset Wood, SE304068
21 Falthwaite & Lowe Wood, SE315035
22 Stainborough Park, SE323034
23 Rockley Woods, SE330018
24 Worsbrough Reservoir, SE347034*
25 Barnsley Canal at Wilthorpe, SE336084
26 Cliffe Wood, SE365067
28 Stairfoot Disused Railway, SE373064
29 Wombwell Wood, SE378025
30 Short Wood & Hay Green, SE353017*
31 Sunny Bank, Horse Carr & Storrs Wood, SE389066
32 Hood Green Pastures, SE312032
33 Redbrook Pastures, SE322071
34 West Haigh Wood, SE425085
39 Bolton-on-Dearne wetland, SE458031
40 Forge & Tin Mill Rocher, SE294992
41 Wharncliffe Chase and Wood, SK 315945
42 West Wood, SK334987
43 Sowell Pond, SK338997
44 Black Lane, SK365983
45 Skiers Spring Wood, SK369994
46 Elsecar Reservoir, SK382994
47 Hoyland Bank Wood, SE272105
48 Bretton Park, SE283123
49 Barnsley Canal, SE370125
50 Wogden Foot, SE175026
52 deleted (Brierley Meadows)
53 Kendal Scrub Green, SE340037
54 Old Mill Lane Culvert Bat Roost, SE351072
56 Potter Holes Plantation, SE993343
57 deleted (Swaithe Flood Meadows)
58 Wool Greaves Meadow, SE268058
59 Thurgoland Glow Worm site, SE293003
60 Rabbit Ings SE380118*
61 Romticle Viaduct/Thurgoland Tunnel SE282007
62 Mapplewell Tip SE323096
63 Elsecar Colliery SE390003
64 Woolley Bank and Bell Bank Wood
Former LWS now included in Dearne Valley Wetlands SSSI:
27 Carlton Marsh, SE 370900
35 Edderthorpe Ings, SE413068
36 Broomhill Flash/Wombwell Ings, SE416047
37 Gipsy Marsh, SE418023
38 Old Moor & Wath Ings, SE430023
51 Barrow Colliery, SE361028
55 Parkhill Nature Reserve, SE405030
LWS with boundaries adjusted to exclude areas within SSSIs
1 Western Moors, SE150020
24 Worsbrough Reservoir, SE347034*
0 Short Wood & Hay Green, SE353017*
60 Rabbit Ings SE380118*
Local Wildlife Sites in Barnsley
This list is regularly reviewed and other sites in Barnsley may warrant Local Wildlife Site status. There are over 50 LWS in Barnsley.
Local designated sites
A Local Wildlife Sites Panel meets to identify and designate a comprehensive range of Local Wildlife Sites.
It is made up of representatives of Barnsley Council, Barnsley Biodiversity Trust, and partner organisations that have a remit to protect and enhance biodiversity in Barnsley.
Defra: Local Sites: Guidance on their identification, selection and management identifies ten criteria for consideration:
*Size; *diversity; *naturalness; *rare or exceptional features; *typicalness; *fragility; *recorded history and cultural associations; *connectivity; *value for appreciation of nature; *value for learning.
The Local Wildlife Sites Panel follows this guidance and has adopted specific site assessment criteria for:
The habitats found in Local Wildlife Sites include almost all the priority habitats found in Barnsley. See link for further information.
Local Wildlife Sites are often on private land and, as such, there is no right of public access due to their status.
Locally Designated Sites